Anwar says Harapan still intact and 11 news you may have missed

KINI ROUNDUP | Here are key headlines you may have missed, in brief.

1. PKR president Anwar Ibrahim said Pakatan Harapan is still intact, despite disagreements among coalition members over who should be the prime minister candidate.

2. Anwar said Dr Mahathir Mohamad does not have the number to form a government either.

3. Mahathir said Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has a split personality and named Azmin Ali and Hamzah Zainuddin as the premier's co-conspirators in the Sheraton Move.

4. Umno vice-president Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the current Perikatan Nasional government is not a strong one and that a snap general election could remedy this.

5. Health Minister Dr Adham Baba urged all parties to stop making negative assumptions about his relationship with the ministry's director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.

6. Malaysia recorded 16 new Covid-19 cases, including at a detention centre in Sabah, the fifth immigration facility to be impacted by the virus.

7. Sabah Chief Minister Shafie Apdal refused to apologise to Musa Aman or pay RM1 billion in damages to charity over a claim that he (Musa) had caused RM872 million to go missing from Yayasan Sabah.

8. PAS' Sik MP Ahmad Tarmizi Sulaiman has been appointed the new chairperson of the Muda Agricultural Development Authority (Mada), effective May 16

9. Kuala Lumpur City Hall banned refugees from entering the Kuala Lumpur wholesale market. Daim Zainuddin said the blame for the increased xenophobic sentiments arose from Harapan's failure to address the issue of migrant workers.

10. The authorities cannot take action over the murder of firefighter Muhammad Adib Mohd Kassim until the suspects are identified, de facto Law Minister Takiyuddin Hassan said.

11. Utusan Malaysia, which ceased operation last year over financial problems, is expected to return next month.

12. Judicial power must not be abused through the invocation of contempt proceedings against critics and the press, appelate court judge Hamid Sultan Abu Backer said.